Q- Do you like being the only girl ?
A- kind of
Q- Why ?
A- Cause I'm not the only girl. You're a girl, mommy J is a girl, Sadie's a girl (the dog)
Q- Do you like being the only kid girl in our family ?
A- Yeah
Q- Do you think having 2 sets of twins is a good or a bad thing to have in a family ?
A- Bad
Q- Why ?
A- Because they bother you a lot.
Q- How do they bother you a lot ?
A- They come to me a lot, "Sydney will you help me...nah, nah, nah" (spoken a little sassy, using her hand as a puppet for the nah nah nah part)
Q- Do you wish you had a twin ?
A- Yes, Hailey. (one of her best friends)
Q- Do you wish you were born with another baby ?
A- Yes
Q- Why ?
A- Because we can be the same age, share a birthday, play together.
Q- So you'd like to have a twin so that you can share all of your stuff, like your birthday, room, toys and clothes and have someone to play with ?
A- uh huh.
Q- What's the best part of having 2 sets of twins in your family ?
A- They play with me a lot...cause there's a lot of kids in this house. And they'll play with other kids too. They'll go to Max's house and give me some time alone. and stop bothering me - like..blah blah blah. (no hand puppet this time but her face got all squinchy and she shook her head from side to side with each blah)
Q- What's the best part about being the only single girl baby born in our family ?
A- That you can have your own room. You get glass stuff when you're the big sister and stuff that breaks and no big brothers who can boss you around.
S- mom, stop asking me questions about my family. ask me something about myself.
M- like what Syd ?
S- liiiiiiike...what's my favorite color. what do I like to eat ?
(I did continue asking her a bunch of her favorite things....mostly stuff I knew)
I think I'll randomly post Q&A stuff like this....I really like the idea of keeping track of what's going on in their little minds...I ask them all of the time...I just don't write it down
Syd then wanted to ask me some questions. Tit for tat...and plus, documenting her questions will help me remember her sweet mind and how it worked.
Q- What's your favorite story to read with me ?
A- Junie B Jones
S- I KNEW IT !!! I Knew you were going to pick Junie B. Jones.
Q-What is your favorite planet ?
A- Pluto, because they don't think it should be a planet any more and that makes me sad. Saturn was always my favorite before.
Q- oh no...why don't they want it to be a planet anymore ?
A- because it's too small.
S- that is sad.
Q- What's your favorite color ?
A- What's my favorite color silly ? you already know the answer to that ?
S- purple !
M- My favorite color is purple ? nooo, it's blue.
S- Did you just write purple ?
Q- What's your favorite place to go. Like is it, Lagoon, Disneyland, the lake ? It can be anywhere.
A- Switzerland
S- switzer land ? where's that ?
Q- What's your favorite part of Halloween ? You can pick 2 if you want. Carving pumpkins ? no, trick or treating ? What's your favorite part ?
A- I do like trick or treating and I really like picking the pumpkins to carve.
Thus ending our interview.
I can't wait to ask her those same questions when she's older and has a better grasp on the twin thing.
In my own opinion and from what I see every day is this. Sydney is the only girl with 4 brothers. She's the princess, not the dressed up in chiffon kind of princess...more like the next in line to the queen of everything kind.
She has her own room. She has her own things. She has a place to go to get away from everyone. She has had the most opportunity....being the first helps too.
She took a ballet class when she was 3, played T-ball when she was 4, has taken swimming lessons since she was 2, currently in gymnastics and piano, gets to go to the store and usually by herself, gets to have sleep overs at grandma's and play dates at friends houses.
For example. When J and I go out of town...we have someone come to the house that stays with the 4 boys. Syd gets to go to Grandma and Papa's house by herself and have one on one time which includes, movies at the theater, white spaghetti and glitter stamp kits.
She's had the most opportunities because it's easier to just take her. J took her to Seattle to visit her sister over a weekend a while back. She took Syd for no other reason than because she felt like she could and wanted Syd to have some one on one time with her.
(I actually feel sorry for the boys...they very seldom get time away by themselves other than trips to the store etc)
I expect a lot from that little girl. I'm the hardest on her. I think that has to do with her being the oldest...but also because my hands are so full with all of these boys. She takes it all in stride and is pretty darn amazing.
Overall I think she's got it pretty good. and I for one am SOOOO-OH-OH Happy that she's a singleton....because oh holy mother of margarita...I wouldn't be here to type these answers for you if I had 3 sets of twins. I'd be praying to the mother of margarita. :)
This little person put a spell on me years ago. She'll forever and always be my one and only baby girl.
